Last week I completed part 1 of the edX HTML5 Coding Essentials and Best Practices course facilitated by the W3Cx group. It’s the first HTML related course I’ve taken since I started the FreeCodeCamp curriculum (one day I’ll make it back over there). My reasons for enrolling in this course were to reacquaint myself with …
Archives for Category: Code Reviews
The description is in the name …reviews of new tech I’ve tried
Trying out Sass with CSS, part 2
Following up on the Sass Essentials course I watched, CSS to Sass: Converting an Existing Site which showed various techniques on converting an existing site from “vanilla css” to sass. As I mentioned before, WordPress themes utilize Sass, so if you choose to use the Underscores starter theme (which I’ve used on my own themes …
Trying out Sass with CSS, part 1
Last post I write about my growing interest in using Sass for CSS development. First I’ll review some of what I learned in the Sass Essentials Training course and then review my top takeaways from the CSS to Sass: Converting an Existing Site video course in part 2 of this series. In the Sass Essentials …
FreeCodeCamp: Basic Front End Development Projects – Review – Part 1
Basic Front End Development Project #1: Tribute Page *completed on 4/18/16 The first basic front end development project is a tribute page. You’re asked to create a page fulfilling two user stories: 1) include text & images 2) link to an external web page for more information on the person you created a tribute page …
FreeCodeCamp: jQuery – Review
Just wanted to record everything I learned, although I took physical notes (ha! yes in the digital age, there are people still handwriting notes). The jQuery portion was a very high-level overview introducing functions and how they can be used to modify HTML/CSS and enhance the page. jQuery notes: All jQuery functions begin with $. …
An introduction to CSS preprocessors
I saw that one of the local bootcamps was hosting a crash course on Sass so I decided to enroll to see what it’s about. I have no experience with Sass and until I started googling it the night before the crash course, was absolutely confused about how it could help with css and what …